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The Aaron Olson Podcast Aaron Olson
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Conversations about entrepreneurship, economics, stoicism, existentialism, health, nutrition, philosophy, and self-improvement. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aaronolson/support
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A Celebration of the Life of Kevin Cooper aka Cole Summers
Billy Cooper is the father of the late Kevin Cooper, aka Cole Summers. At 7 years old, Kevin started his own business, at 10 he remodeled his own house, and at 14, he wrote the inspiring book Don't Tell Me I Can't: An Ambitious Homeschoolers Journey with Billy Cooper.
I asked Billy about Kevin's upbringing, his education, and fond memories. We get to celebrate the life and memory of Kevin.
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Joel Bein on Hacking Your Career
Joel Bein, CEO of CareerHackers.com, is on a mission to help more people find a career that makes them come alive. He encourages us to follow our curiosity by learning-out-loud. Joel talks about his journey from music teacher to CEO of CareerHackers. He talks about the opportunities that can be found when you really go after something.
Links:
https://events.careerhackers.com/supercharger
https://careerhackers.com/
Chapters:
00:00:00 Joel Bein https://joelbein.com/
00:02:37 Follow your curiosity
00:05:30 Do work that makes you come alive
00:07:48 Supercharge your career https://events.careerhackers.com/supercharger
00:13:06 Learning UX/UI with no experience https://www.linkedin.com/posts/careercrash_uxdesign-userexperience-changingcareers-activity-6980451308713463808-VANL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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Lizanne Falsetto on Entrepreneurship & Building a Health Food Empire
Health food entrepreneur Lizanne Falsetto and I discuss how she built a health food empire that sold for 217 million and how she is now disrupting the dairy industry with betterland milk.
We talk about how she pioneered the protein bar industry. We also talk about her latest venture - making milk without cows from fermented whey proteins.
She shares what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how she became so damn smart (my words), and things you can do to improve your odds of success.
Links:
https://www.lizannefalsetto.com/
https://www.woobars.com/
https://www.betterlandmilk.com/
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Bryan Caplan on Thomas Szasz and The Myth of Mental Illness
Bryan Caplan and I discuss the ideas of the iconoclast social critic and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Dr. Caplan won the Thomas Szasz award in 2005 for his paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness. We have a wide-ranging conversation about Szasz, his ideas, and how to help ourselves and others when struggling with life. Dr. Caplan shares some of his personal experiences with depression during Covid and how he got out of it.
Related Episodes
Bryan Caplan on Parenting: https://youtu.be/JM0dGLRgko0
Anthony Stadlen on Szasz: https://youtu.be/wzVVLgpgLBA
Jeffrey Schaler on Szasz: https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14
Christopher Lane on Shyness: https://youtu.be/GrV46aVkNvM
Irvin Kirsch on Antidepressants: https://youtu.be/PtubmyA3BgU
Related Videos
John Nash on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/SizS1nOOeJg
Take These Broken Wings (Documentary about Schizophrenia): https://youtu.be/EPfKc-TknWU
Titicut Follies (Mistreatment of Involuntary Patients): https://youtu.be/e-wVwtN5f-U
Crazywise Film: https://youtu.be/IXnmBIYaIZE
Jim Van Os on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0
Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Bryan Caplan https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan
00:35 Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids https://amzn.to/3NZcxQg
00:56 How did you discover Thomas Szasz?
01:33 The Untamed Tongue https://amzn.to/3NYtTwI
02:07 Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences https://amzn.to/3aAp3bn
02:34 Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3ANgIvp
02:57 Ceremonial Chemistry https://amzn.to/3P4IBU5
03:25 How long did it take you to understand Szasz?
06:13 What do you think most people misunderstood about Szasz?
08:14 Heavy drinkers respond to incentives https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1i5
10:55 How homosexuality got declassified as a disease
11:41 Transvestism
12:34 The Useful Lie https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1eT
12:56 Responsibility
14:34 Criticisms of Szasz
15:42 Szasz as a philosopher of mind https://wp.me/p8ReVr-rs
16:34 Scott Alexander https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/07/contra-caplan-on-mental-illness/
17:53 Drapetomania https://g.co/kgs/5qVtCe
18:06 What was it like to meet Szasz? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/thomas_szasz_a.html
19:29 Suicide https://amzn.to/3RuQS5w
20:05 Why do you think Szasz wrote so much?
21:00 Did you get pushback when writing your paper on Szasz?
22:19 Shakespeare and Szasz
23:24 Has Szasz helped you in your personal life?
27:12 Brittany Spears
28:27 Addiction is a Choice https://wp.me/p8ReVr-9U
29:05 Karl Kraus https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1hz
29:51 Szasz's political beliefs
31:13 Suicide
32:29 Epicurus https://epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html
32:54 Julian Simon https://amzn.to/3P4Kct3
35:17 Surround yourself with friends
36:11 How do you stay productive?
37:51 Lucretius http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html
39:01 How do you deal with depression during Covid?
41:16 Faith in Freedom https://amzn.to/3caLvIq
41:38 Free will https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/freewill
43:38 Writing advice
44:45 The Baader Meinhof Complex https://youtu.be/2UPrDdb0r70
46:43 Economics of Szasz http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf
49:50 Rational vs. Irrational
52:53 Schizophrenia https://amzn.to/3AK5yb3
56:10 Biographies of schizophrenics https://amzn.to/3IBtJu0
59:15 Hearing voices https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0
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Mark Eglinton on the Enigma of John McAfee
Mark Eglinton talks with me about his adventures in writing, and his latest book on John McAfee's life called, No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes (https://amzn.to/35cIHr8).
Chapters:
00:00:00 Mark Eglinton https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton
00:00:33 How did Mark become a writer?
00:01:30 From caddy to writer
00:05:30 Do the work, just do it
00:06:00 Where do you start?
00:08:20 How do you start?
00:09:20 Get some distance from your work
00:10:27 Writing is the sexiest job ever
00:12:00 How is the money in writing?
00:12:15 Make shit happen
00:13:10 How Mark started working with John McAfee
00:14:28 John McAfee is The Great White Whale
00:15:45 Was John telling the truth?
00:19:00 Working with John was like being in a James Bond movie
00:20:45 John's relationship with his kids
00:24:10 John's early life as a programmer
00:25:40 John's work for NASA
00:27:44 John applied math to relationships
00:29:00 Did John ever work hard?
00:29:34 John and methamphetamine
00:30:28 John didn't want a corporate life
00:31:40 John's outlandish spending
00:32:23 John McAfee and yoga
00:33:15 John's yoga books https://amzn.to/3wBV4Z1
00:34:50 Amanda Milius https://mobile.twitter.com/amandamilius
00:35:55 John McAfee weeps
00:37:27 John understood the human spirit
00:38:25 John leaves Belize
00:40:00 John marries Janice
00:41:00 John on the run in the US
00:41:40 Was John just paranoid?
00:42:18 Janice ties to poison John
00:43:10 John cancels the book project
00:46:30 Was John broke?
00:48:00 Canonic books on bitcoin
00:49:40 Books as NFTs
00:51:00 Will tech control us, or will we control tech?
00:52:00 Extras associated w/ the NFT
00:55:40 Canonic is seeing into the future
00:57:25 Steve Bannon
00:59:40 Mark on Twitter https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton
01:00:00 Mark on Twetch https://twetch.com/u/68864
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Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free
Low-Mileage Running is a short guide to running faster, injury free. It focuses on avoiding injury while optimizing your training. The book provides practical training advice, workouts, and sample training plans for the 5k to Marathon. Throughout this book, I share how you can maximize your training and reduce injuries while running fewer miles. By listening to your body and focusing on quality workouts tailored to your event, you can improve your performance and avoid injury. Download the free PDF book here: https://aaronolson.blog/books/
Chapters:
00:00:00 Opening Credits
00:00:11 Introduction
00:00:36 How I Got Started
00:02:17 A New Approach
00:05:12 Quality Workouts
00:06:25 Stress + Rest = Adaptation
00:07:42 Creating Quality Workouts
00:08:02 Time Trials
00:09:52 Race Time Predictor https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a761681/rws-race-time-predictor/
00:11:25 Intervals
00:12:56 Tracking workouts
00:13:54 Intensity
00:15:19 Training the Central Governor
00:16:53 Recovery
00:18:40 Training Guidelines
00:18:43 Economics of Running
00:19:46 Listen to Your Body
00:21:12 Adjusting on the Fly
00:21:33 Take a Holistic Approach
00:22:24 Follow the 80:20 Rule
00:23:15 Find the Minimum Effective Dose
00:24:15 Race Your Way Into Shape
00:25:46 Similar Workouts
00:26:19 Train Performance Not Physiology
00:27:13 Cross-training
00:27:50 Strength Training
00:28:19 Stretching
00:29:10 Sample Training Plans
00:29:51 Training Plans Guidelines http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/
00:30:29 5k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-5k-training-plan/
00:30:52 10k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-10k-training-plan/
00:31:16 Half-Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-half-marathon-training-plan/
00:31:42 Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-marathon-training-plan/
00:32:17 Jeff Ford Interview https://youtu.be/FG4dJmqPOQA
00:33:30 Conclusion
00:34:26 Closing Credits
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Customer Reviews
Informative & Inspiring
Aaron Olson has had a great lineup of guests, many of them highly regarded in the paleo & endurance sport communities. You can tell Aaron knows his stuff when it comes to nutrition & fitness. He's read (or at least can speak intelligently about) his guest's books & he asks some really great questions during the interviews. He also has brought in a fair amount of guests who have differing or even opposing viewpoints (vegans for instance) but respectfully allows them to share their own experience. I had little interest in nutrition prior to listening to the podcast but found it exteremely interesting.
Aaron is amazing at his craft
Oft times I want to ask a question while I listen and incredibly Aaron asks that very question of his guest! He is very good at his craft. I like paleo, I like running, I like his guests, and I like his style. Check this one out. scottyO-Aspen
Lots of great interviews!
Lots of great interviews! Stay up to date on all the latest info!